Florideophyceae - Corallinophycidae
Full reference: L. Le Gall, C.E. Payri, L. Bittner and G.W. Saunders. 2010. Multigene phylogenetic analyses support recognition of the Sporolithales ord. nov. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 54:302-305
Parent taxon: Corallinophycidae according to J. Hrabovsky et al. 2021
See also Hrabovsky et al. 2016, Tripalo 2017 and Vannucci et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Corallinales, Hapalidiales
Subtaxa: Sporolithaceae
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Brazil (1 collection), Ecuador (1), French Polynesia (6), India (3), Japan (7), the Seychelles (1), United States (3: Hawaii)
• Pliocene of Spain (2)
• Miocene of Australia (1), Cyprus (1), Czechia (4), Egypt (7), France (6), Greece (3), Guam (2), Indian Ocean (1), Indonesia (3), Iran (1), Italy (19), Lebanon (1), North Atlantic (1), the Philippines (1), Poland (6), Romania (3), South Pacific (2), Spain (4), Türkiye (1), Ukraine (2)
• Oligocene of Austria (2), Egypt (1), India (3), Iran (1), Italy (12), Libya (1), Malta (10), Slovenia (9), Spain (2)
• Eocene of Austria (6), China (1), Costa Rica (1), Croatia (1), the Dominican Republic (1), Georgia (1), Germany (2), Greece (30), Hungary (1), India (37), Indian Ocean (3), Italy (14), Japan (2), Libya (1), Morocco (1), New Zealand (1), Northern Mariana Islands (1), Pakistan (1), Peru (1), Romania (13), Slovakia (2), Slovenia (2), Spain (4), Switzerland (1), United States (3: California), Uzbekistan (1)
• Paleocene to Eocene of India (6), Iraq (1), Italy (2), Slovakia (3)
• Paleocene of Austria (5), Costa Rica (5), Egypt (2), France (1), India (12), Iraq (1), Italy (2), Morocco (1), Oman (1), Poland (1), Slovakia (46), Slovenia (1), Spain (2)
• Cretaceous of Austria (1), Brazil (2), Egypt (3), France (1), India (5), Italy (2), Romania (8), Somalia (2), Spain (5)
Total: 387 collections including 450 occurrences